The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
BEN ELTONMy advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
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Comedy will always be central to what I do, it’s just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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I don’t know what people who I’ve never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things – but I’m proud of the fact I’ve remained close to everyone I’ve ever worked with.
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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.
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I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.
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You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators
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People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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